Marlon Brando Quotes

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• Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
• If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
• Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
• Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
• With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't…
• To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
• If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.
• If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
• An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
• An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.
• The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
• I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.
• The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
• The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.
• I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths…
• Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.
• Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.
• Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.
• The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.
• A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just…

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